“The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.”

“Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.”

“Good advice, if there's any good in suffering. Quickest is best when trouble blocks the way.”

“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”

“Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”

“Invited, not inflicted; of all wounds, those that seem willful are the worst to bear.”

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”