One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they were contributing to a family's essential survival and happiness. In the transformation from a rural to an urban society, children are-though they might not agree-robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things--call them what you will…

And when he goes to heaven, to St. Peter he will tell: One more soldier reporting, sir. I've served my time in hell.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. ... War settles nothing.