The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.