"War will make corpses of us all."

“It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.”

“Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.”

“My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”

“The only guy who's honest is the guy who sings in the shower. Everyone else is a prostitute.”

“Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.”

“Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.”

“The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.”

“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.”