Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

How many geniuses are we putting to sleep today and where would our world be now, if the age of pill popping, mind numbing control existed during the times of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, or Einstein?

Memories are worse than bullets.

I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

I like to go to bed early so I can get up early.

We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.