Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments..

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking ….

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especia….

What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A mu….

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it..

Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch..

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them..

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back..

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards..

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and ….

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better ….

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask ….

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you'v….

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick..

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans..

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it..

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes..

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose..

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not..

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit..