In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.