When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

The present tense made him nervous.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith