Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.