Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

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.

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

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.