To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.