There is no thermometer for wants!

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.