One should never despair too soon.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.

The suns going down and we cant afford to come back to it tomorrow.

They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.

Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.