"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."

"The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America."

"The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place."

"Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound."

"If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there."

"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology."

"Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat."

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."

"Religion is pickled God."

"'Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. '"

"Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies."

"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."