War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

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.

All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates, Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hourThe blood grows colder in my veins.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.