If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.
As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn. '
Famine, plague, death and war. . . that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention.
That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move. " He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind. " "Hey, she's not in charge here," I teased. "She's just a soldier. " "Right. " He lightly brushed his fingers against my cheek. "Sorry, Captain. " "General," I corrected, catching my breath at that brief touch.