If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.

You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I can generate attention quickly.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.