Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.