Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

If you want peace, prepare for the war.

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

Valor is superior to number.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Humbleness, modest and down to earth that recognize the real power and true sense of values towards the achievement of good life and enduring everlasting qualities.

And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life

Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.

James had given his heart to this girl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knew well enough from Edmund and Will what it meant when a Herondale gave his heart away. It was not a gift that could be returned.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.

It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.