Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!