I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

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.

This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen

Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.