"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

"To love truly means recognizing that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine."

"It is a enduring truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude."

"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others."

"Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling."