Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.