satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

So tell me, Tamara darlin', what other needs can I help you take care of?

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

The choices we make now affect the opportunities available in the future

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.