I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

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

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.