And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.