“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.

To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.

It is not a truth that matters, but victory.

The leader of the genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

People are so blind to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The strong man is mightiest alone.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.

My game of love has just begun, love runs from my head down to my toes. My love is pumping through my veins. Play the game, driving me insane.

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.

An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.

The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.

In the beginning, I took on every opportunity because I was so determined to get my name and music out there. You can get your sleep, but honestly, your brain needs a break, too, and so many people forget that.

Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.