An honor is not diminished for being shared.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.