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.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.