I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.