War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.