“Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.”

“HLADES LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man he will find an easier way to do it.”

“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it i...”

“When we break 5Ms of Manufacturing Efficiency - Men, Machine, Materials, Methods & Money to personal level, the first two Ms will spell Minutes & Mind, and rest remain constant!”

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”

“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”