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

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.

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

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

I know’, is a big ghost. ‘This is mine’, is a huge demonic possession!

Let's face it some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

I'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me.

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

It's quite true I'm not drinking anymore; however, I'm not drinking any less either.