I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.
Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian. . . The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.