"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy."

"The creation of a line of forts opposite to the French frontier will enable the German troops to be economized on that line and will enable the main forces to swing round through Belgium and Holland."

"Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more."

"The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation."

"Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...."

"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences."

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."

"There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world."