Mike

“I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in those great drainpipes. But when we go bathing and strip, suddenly we have slender legs again and slight shoulders. We are no longer soldiers but little more than boys; no one would believe that we could carry packs. It is a strange moment when we stand naked; then we become civilians, and almost feel ourselves to be so. When bathing Franz Kemmerich looked as slight and frail as a child. There he lies now -- buy why? The whole world ought to pass by this bed and say: "That is Franz Kemmerich, nineteen and a half years old, he doesn't want to die. Let him not die!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Dare to be an optimist.”
― Matt Ridley (Author)

“A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.”
― Ann Coulter

“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
― Kurt Vonnegut