Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

I want my army to be an army of the living God.

The only winner today is big business.

Never take counsel of your fears.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

There's little money in theatre.

If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.