Peace is obtained by war.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

After darkness comes the light.

That evil can never be great which is the last.

No evil is great if it is the last.

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all.

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.

Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.