Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

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.

Enemies are an indication of character.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.