In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Magicians prosper because we are willing to be fooled.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

He would make a lovely corpse.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning.