War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. – Smedley Butler
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I dont even think its as much as what I want for myself. Its more what I want for the people around me. Thats what I want. – Tom Cruise
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand…. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”
