If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

What is past is prologue.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.