After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Obey the law and be someone else biatch.

It’s important to be yourself.

Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.