The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.