Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.