Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Fear kills more people than death.

My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me which way to go, Shakespeare.

When an idea for solving a problem suddenly presents itself, ask yourself if all circumstances related to the problem were properly analyzed.

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

Politics ruins the character.

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

Sweet are the uses of adversity