"To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions."

"So little of what could happen does happen."

"I don't believe in leaving anything to be inherited."

"We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred."

"A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit."

"Rem tene, verba sequntur (Keep to the subject, and the words will follow)"

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."

"The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged."

"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."

"Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly."

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."

"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."