I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.