"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder …"

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."

"The world is full of people who are trying to get to the top, but they don’t know where they are going."

"The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life."

"I am, in point of fact, a particularly freakish specimen."