Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.