Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

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

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.