The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.

And we love to dance especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people war means maiming people war means families left without fathers and mothers.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress the other side more or less for reaction.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.