We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.

It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.

Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.

All verbal spats have silent winners.

The kiss is neither returned nor exchanged, because it's free. (Le baiser n'est ni repris - Ni échangé, car gratuit.)

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English.

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.