It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give.

The bright stars of the skies are far to touch

My depression was mild, and I could treat it by myself and pick myself up again. But some people aren't that lucky.

And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

I feel like there's the 'Hillary standard' and then there's the standard for everybody else.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.