...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.