In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Only those live who do good.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.