For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

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.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6, 000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.