A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

If you want peace, understand war.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

When we look and feel happy, it’s beautiful and more attractive than anything we could possibly imagine.

Satire today has become a flat ‘tyre'.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids.

There are many paths but only one journey.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

I think celebrities are kind of put up on a pedestal and we don't really know much about them. I feel like my fans know every part of me because I've shown them.

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.