Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.