Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.