Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

Optimism is the spirit of confident soul.

You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.