After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

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