We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

My idea of Christmas is love. Love so pure and so divine.

That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

I'm a huge car guy, I cannot wait to see it [Ferrari World]. I hear there is also unbelievable golf which I'd like to sample and I'm looking forward to seeing what the gym facilities are like

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.