Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.