He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.