Human behavior is timeless.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.