When I used to do musical theatre my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action has arrived stop...
If you wish to be a success in the world promise everything deliver nothing.
Respect the burden.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone...
In politics... never retreat never retract... never admit a mistake.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon...
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals...
All religions have been made by men.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we...
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician...
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Imagination rules the world.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's...
The herd seek out the great not for their sake but for their influence and...
When small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to...
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government...
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may...
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would...
If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would...
