For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

When I say something, I mean it. The world needs to have a Palestinian state that is free and at peace.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Tomorrow contains more joy than any yesterday you recall.

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too late to get in touch with your roots.

I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.