There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

An upturned life is righted in the box.

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.

One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.