Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

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.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.