A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!