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 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.

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.

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

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

Power factions fight back with lies.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.