To rule yourself is the ultimate power

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.