A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Beware the hobby that eats.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Morality is contraband in war.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.