It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.

Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.

Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.