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

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.

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.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

Choose to live...then live through experiences!

And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely .

A cat is like a puzzle with no solution.

God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.