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.

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

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.

Far too many people hunger and hope for different outcomes, but never willing to do things differently.

It is hard to die unmourned.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.