A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.