Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything

I carry within my heart all the great memories.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

We wouldn't want to live in a world where no one believed in themselves enough to make their own dreams come true.

Every morning you are reborn, and prove it worthwhile.

In the beginning, I only wanted to know, love, and serve God and understand the Bible. What harm could that possibly bring?

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.