Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The will of the people is the best law.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Everything rusts, rots, crumbles, vanishes. The infinite will just take a little bit longer.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.