A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.