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

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.

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

I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.

Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.

Communication is the key for any global business.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.