Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

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.

I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.

Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

Experiences come and go; however, my love for myself is constant.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.