Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

I love my soul to spiritually care for it.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.