If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.