Few things worth having can be got easily.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.