“A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.”

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

There’s no jealousy in the grave.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Believe the best of everybody.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Be brave enough to bet on yourself.

Be brave enough to change.

Admit the mistake is an act of bravery.

Women are much more capable, braver, sharper, stronger and courageous than we think.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.