It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
One might as well try to charge through a wall.