“Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Pessimism never won any battle.

It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Life is a battle so we dance.

War is romantic only to those who are far away from the sounds and turmoil of battle.

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.