We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

A wedding is no way to begin a marriage.

Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

Manners are the ornament of action.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market