Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.