People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

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

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