“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

War is the business of barbarians.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

There shall be no Alps.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds, I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets

I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.

Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

When you stop chasing a butterfly, it may land. This is a lot like love.

Let me gaze deeper into your eyes and thank the cosmos in disguise.

You only knew the parts of me you accepted in yourself.

Healing can look a lot like violence.

When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?