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.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

... a war always ends.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

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.