“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”
After All (1936), p. 224
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Source: To Stanisław Mikołajczyk in Moscow, October 14, 1944. Quoted in Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War (2008) by Patrick J Buchanan, p. 380.
“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”
After All (1936), p. 224
When Larry King asked that Robert Gates is wrong or right about Russia that democracy has disappeared and the government being run by the security services. (February 2010) http://en.rian.ru/interview/20101202/161586625.html
2006- 2010
“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”
"Returning Home" http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2877&Itemid=0, Shambhala Sun (March 2006)
Context: Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race. Your true home is not an abstract idea. It is something you can touch and live in every moment. With mindfulness and concentration, the energies of the Buddha, you can find your true home in the full relaxation of your mind and body in the present moment. No one can take it away from you. Other people can occupy your country, they can even put you in prison, but they cannot take away your true home and your freedom.
Reprinted in [Alten, Steve, The Shell Game, 2008, Cedar Fort, 978-1599550947, 182]
Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916