“No policy is worth anything outside of reality.”

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Old age is a shipwreck.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed.

When you’re dead, you don’t breathe, you don’t see, you don’t feel, you don’t love.

I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it’s great material, then you feel confident in it.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

It feels amazing to be a part of the rhino conservation story in India.

I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It’s a great feeling to be back fighting for the title.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

When you are feeling like a failure, remember the grenades you have crushed, the setbacks you have overcome, and the battles you have won.