What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.

May you let the authentic colors of your heart illuminate and may you feel the light within others.

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with.

We have already reprogrammed the way men are raised, and we have done that drastically, I think. That's what I mean when I talk about the chickification of everything.

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.