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

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.

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

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.

Whatever happens in your life, make a promise to yourself that you will never give up your ability to dream.

Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.

Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

All things living are in search of a better world .

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.