I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29
Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.