When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

When you're going through hell - just keep on going!

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.

One ought to be just before one is generous