War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

Words don't come easily, like forgive me.