"We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours."

"Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed."

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."

"I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."

"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance."

"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."

"Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars."

"If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961)."

"Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said."