It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

History is littered with dead good men

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.