For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

When the man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or four years ago, he is a broadminded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).