The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are - the refuge of political and economic opportunist.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

People who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature.