Leon Trotsky

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

When you know better, you do better.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice…

You will find only what you bring in.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Letting go is not giving up.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.