All Quotes

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. ”

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ”

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ”

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. ”

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ”

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. ”

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ”

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! ”

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ”

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ”