I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Children make your life important.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I think hygiene is so important.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.