True leadership means making tough decisions for the right reasons.

"The world is full of stories, and most of them are lies."

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

大的不怕与小的同游，居中的却远避之。

Mathematics is the music of reason.

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless.