Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.