Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.