In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.