“Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.”

Superficial goals lead to superficial results.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.

It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.

You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.