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

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

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.

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

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

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?