Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.