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

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

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

You should always be challenging yourself to see how high you can elevate yourself above the masses.

The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.