“Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”

“Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.”

“The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.”

“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

“Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?”

“We did an evil thing, father.""What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible.”