The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

I suppose I look acceptable, the black (haired) sheep among the Barrett blondes.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.