In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

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.

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.