“Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.”

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.

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

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.

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

Nothing cuts deeper than being made a fucking fool at a time you’re already so vulnerable.

More of us would learn from our mistakes if we weren’t so busy denying them.

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body.

Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn’t mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.

We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.