"Where we go and what we do advertises what we are."

"The creation of a line of forts opposite to the French frontier will enable the German troops to be economized on that line and will enable the main forces to swing round through Belgium and Holland."

"I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music."

"ita€?s when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest."

"A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments."

"Don't spend $2 to dry clean a shirt. Instead, donate it to the Salvation Army. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. The next morning buy it back for seventy- five cents."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."

"Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached."

"I have always been a timid person but my life has required me to be courageous."

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."