Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.