With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

If you build your life on one and only person, be prepared for none and lonely life

The universe is a masterpiece painted by love's masterstrokes.

I can hear the music all around me.

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit!

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.