No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Strategy is a system of expedients.

We both know... that soon everything is going to end......This chat will be in the past... but what to do on that riddle or puzzle or mystery...????

Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.