Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.