In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Sin is geographical.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.