The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

Things do not get better by being left alone.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

When a new book appears one should read an old one.