All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

I wake up each morning with grateful gladness.

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.

Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.