Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

You are my one and only, for all eternity.

Not all broken things need to be fixed.

She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.