A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian. . . The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Prettiness dies first.
Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.
What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.