People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.