I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers.

Fake love, is just as damaging as open hate.

History is the same story with different costumes.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

Victory was close. Just one final push. "Send in the rest, " I ordered. "All wings attack. Take that base down now.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.