Steven Pressfield

"Do you love your country? This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor."

"This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior amo…"

"Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance."

"The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere…"

"I had always wondered what it felt like to die."

"Nothing relieves Irish despair. The Irishman's complaint lies not with his circumstance, which might be rendered brilliant by labour or luck, but with injustice of existence itself. Death! How could a…"

"I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised over architecture is my kind of dude."

"To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be."