War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

War will make corpses of us all.

Find your passion and fulfill it.

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.

My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what?