Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.