Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, " he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

I am doing what is right and from my heart against all odds.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.