“If you are going to without trust. men tasks to do, then once they have proved themselves, you should let them get on without you standing over them. There is no point in giving responsibility wifh”
“Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.”
“People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.”
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
“The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.”
“When you get to that point where you notice a person’s faults, you’ve got to decide if you can live with them or can’t live without them.”