A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.