Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier - all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.