“and you i beg make not your anger manifest. For all that lives needs help from all the rest.”

“All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.”

“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”

“Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to common sense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face”

“A Man lives off his head.His head won't see him through.Inspect your own—What lives on that?At most, a louse or two . . .”

“Mankind lives by its headIts head won't see him throughInspect your own. What lives off that?At most a louse or two.”

“General, your tank is a powerful vehicleIt smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men.But it has one defect:It needs a driver.General, your bomber is powerful.It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant.But it has one defect:It needs a mechanic.General, man is very useful.He can fly and he can kill.But he has one defect:He can think.”