Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

bad news travels faster than good.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.