Gustaf Mannerheim Quotes

#1. But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Bodhidharma

#2. Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Andre Norton

#3. I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

Elie Wiesel

#4. For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

#5. How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing.

Anthony Doerr

#6. Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

#7. The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Luciano Pavarotti

#8. When I first started acting, I was just crap.

Heath Ledger

#9. Officers don't run, only corporals do that

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim