Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.