You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.