The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

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

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.