For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

If you are living an original life, there is absolutely no need to compete with anyone else.

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

You yourself must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.

The one who obey's God's instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.