Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.