Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how to make use of our victories.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

All things are subject to decay and change.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.

Look within - there is no end!

America is not the center of the universe.

I can make your girlfriend scream louder than you ever could just by pressing her follow button.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.