I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.