Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

I'm basically one of the best people I know.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

It will all end very badly, Gus

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.