You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.