Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

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.

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold, ' but rather, 'How many people did you help?

People want incongruous, impossible things.

You can have the most expensive clothes and still lack style

Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.

Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing.