German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.

O Lord God

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before he goes into the office.

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.