“Politics is not an exact science.”

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Politics is the art of the possible.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Great men have great dogs.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…

Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not,

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous