[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.