Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

My thoughts are really all I think about.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

People want to give back. People want to do good

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.