I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

My home is not a place, it is people.

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain

Our children change uswhether they live or not.