You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

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.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

It pains me to have all this knowledge and no one to share it with, I’d have to say its number 3 on my list. – Of what causes me the most pain.

Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Intimates are predestined.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.