"Fear is incomplete knowledge."

"It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves."

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."

"As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself every day."

"I’ve always believed in doing the best I can. I’m not a perfectionist, but I do like to do things thoroughly."