Politics ruins the character.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.