Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways,….

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming o….

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate ….

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more..

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality..

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live..

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them..

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good..

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and ….

... a war always ends..

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthod….

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime..

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history..

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge..

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't ….

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth..

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns..

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today..

The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood….

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate w….

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze..