"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without."

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."

"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."

"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"I am not a role model."

"Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful."