Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
War should be the only study of a prince. he should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Seeing is not always believing.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. we need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me.
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.