There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Religion, by ‘consecrating’ the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."