The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.