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

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.]

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.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

God save me from myself.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a little bit!

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.