"Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."

"I don't believe in leaving anything to be inherited."

"You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real."

"The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war."

"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country."

"Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by."

"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."

"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."

"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."

"The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies."