The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

As for us, our days of combat are over. Our swords are rust. Our guns will thunder no more. The vultures that once wheeled over our heads must be buried with their prey. Whatever of glory must be won in the council or the closet, never again in the field. I do not repine. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war; we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top.