A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
One faces the future with one's past.
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.