I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.