But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about...
But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or a...
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
الطيبة وحدها لا تكفي. لا بد من حكمة باردة قاسية للطيبة كي تحقق الخير. الطيبة بلا حكمة تؤدي حتما إلى الشر.
You are not in my debt. You can’t be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don’t want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
The trouble with lessons from history is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.
He does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
You know the classification of cultures into ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian.
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
When there’s nothing else you can do, breathe slower. There’s no way it can hurt, and it might help.
Well, I suppose it did.
We used these rifles in field exercises to simulate a lot of deadlier and nastier aimed weapons, too.
We pray for one last landingOn the globe that gave us birth;Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skiesAnd the cool, green hills of Earth.
Uh, all right. Boss, you’re infuriating when you’re logical! Yes, a most uncouth way to argue.
To the everlasting glory of the Infantry—