If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.