The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

... a war always ends.

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.