A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.