When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

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.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.