Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.