Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life

Es genügt nicht keinen Gedanken zu haben, man muss auch fähig sein, diesen auszudrücken.

You don't even live once.

It's my Chinese fortune cookie. The year of the rabbit. The year of the cat. It's the year of the Nuggets. Forget about last year. Let's learn from what happened last year. Let's move on to 2006 and have a great 2006.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Cervantes Every war has its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.