If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it.