What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.

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

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.