When the solution is simple, God is answering.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
God always takes the simplest way.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
History is written by the victors.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.