Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

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.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

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.

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

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.