The price of stability is unpreparedness.

If you believe our cause so hopeless, why join us?""Because you offered something I had forgotten could be offered, a choice. And I choose to die free.

I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

Only in war does the madman become sane.

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother, " Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.

It's a rare man who can guard against beauty.

Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.

Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.