The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.