There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

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.

A thing is never untold, It is always misperceived.

Your power is in your thoughts not in your physical strength,

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.