War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

The love of God encompasses us.

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Success is my drug of choice.

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.