Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition men have at all times and in all countries called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine beer opium brandy or tobacco.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane human being has ever given his assent.
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes however we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery and it is intellectually dishonest.
These are the times that try men's souls.
There are truths which are not for all men nor for all times.
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men frightened by their wives or sweeties would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
A lot of times women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship what men go through when they're not really dealing well.
As a physician and as a pilot I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots the pilots really don't know what they're saying.