Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

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.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.