Maxim 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up.

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.

We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That's why we must rely on God's strength to transform us.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.

I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.