Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Everybody has flaws, and every country has flaws. But you can still love something even though you know it's been so wrong before, and sometimes is now, and probably will be again.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but...

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of understanding.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no...

Men are men they needs must err.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life - - is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not...

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Our greatest threats never come from strangers but those closer to us.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

An honest man is always a child.

You never think it's going to happen to you, do you?

What is it about guys named Adam?