Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

If I can't trust your word, I can't trust you.

I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away.

Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.