War is progress, peace is stagnation.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

When you manage your expectations, you let yourself soak in the joy of what is actually happening around you.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?

If you're not busy living, you're dying.