Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life no matter what else there is it's not enough.

The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.

The theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy is not a matter of great practical importance to animals or to savages or even to most civilised men.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.