I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

I think Vladimir Putin will give up power.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

The elderly are useless eaters.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.