I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

Don't be afraid to take risks, for you take them every day without realizing it. I'd rather fail at trying something new or different than to lose just for not trying at all.

It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

I wanted to work with an elephant.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.