Always advance. Never dig in.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Fear kills more people than death.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Wonder opens and unravels reality.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.