It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

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

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.