I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.