Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.