Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

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 truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.