When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

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.

For she had eyes and chose me.

My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

To be a great success, you must do two things without fear: love and share.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Better gray than garishness.

Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!

Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.