“Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.”

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Politics is not an exact science.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Politics ruins the character.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Master your responses to external events–don’t attempt to control them.

Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

You train your heart to control your body. That’s what you do when you fast.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

You can’t control the length of your life. You can control the depth

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.