The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.