This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Every woman knows all about everything.

When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.