Those with the least always lose the most in war.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.