To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

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.

Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

We're talking about the chemical lobotomy. We're talking about the chemical straightjacketing of our children.

Let's turn inflation over to the Post Office. That'll slow it down.