Imagination rules the world.

Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

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

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.