“When you are a soldier, either you surrender or you are killed. But you don't flee.”

“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”

“I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming. (…) I don't duel. But if you seek to die like a bludgeoned steer, cross me again.”

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”

“Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.”

“You can keep your sword, for you fought proper. Like a proper soldier. Take your blade to paradise, and tell them you were killed by another proper soldier.”

“If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, there's nothing I can tell you.”

“It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.”

“There are questions which, once approached, either isolate you or kill you outright.”

“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”