A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Big dreams are important because the awaken the giant that sleeps within you.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

There has been no warming over 18 years.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?