"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

"There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

"I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?"