There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

The eyes of India only see in color.

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.