I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

He who never says "no" is no true man.