China Is A Big Country, Inhabited By

Old France, Weighed Down With History, Prostrated By Wars And Revolutions, Endlessly Vacillating From Greatness To Decline, But Revived, Century After Century, By The Genius Of Renewal!

Authority Doesn't Work Without Prestige, Or Prestige Without Distance.

A True Leader Always Keeps An Element Of Surprise Up His Sleeve, Which Others Cannot Grasp But Which Keeps His Public Excited And Breathless.

In The Tumult Of Men And Events, Solitude Was My Temptation; Now It Is My Friend. What Other Satisfaction Can Be Sought Once You Have Confronted History?

Nothing More Enhances Authority Than Silence. It Is The Crowning Virtue Of The Strong, The Refuge Of The Weak, The Modesty Of The Proud, The Pride Of The Humble, The Prudence Of The Wise, And The Sense Of Fools. To Speak Is To . . . Dissipate One's Strength; Whereas What Action Demands Is Concentration. Silence Is A Necessary Preliminary To The Ordering Of One's Thoughts.