The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

My life has been one long series of mistakes.

To extraordinary circumstances we must apply extraordinary remedies.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one [does] at sea with a sailing ship... reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.