“Take your time.Stay away from the easy going.Never take the same way twice.Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance; Guadalcanal 1942”
“One person's success doesn't take away from your own.”
“You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.”
“The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.”
“It’s because you’re different. You can’t live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have to find your own rules. All my life I’ve been running away from their rules, Hayat. All my life. You will be the same.”