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

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

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.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Don’t kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill!

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

Logic is no answer to passion.

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.