“The victory over all the afflictions that befall you, is, to keep silence.”

“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befall us.”

“If your ear is open to the afflicted, God will keep his ear open to you.”

“Honour thy parents; that is, all
From whom advancement may befall:
Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive
Officiously to keep alive.”

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. … Even if you kill an enemy, if it is not based on what you have learned it is not the true Way.”

“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

“By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise.”

“You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”

“In Iraq, there is no peace without victory. We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory.”