He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Books are humanity in print.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

The truth is that most of us are not our best selves.

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.

God always strives together with those who strive.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.