More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.