All the great things are simple.

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.