Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.