Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.