We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Optimism is cowardice.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West.

I would love to have a drink with Meryl Streep or Prince. Those are my top two people I would love to talk to.