I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

When you say you are losing it, it actually means you are losing faith in yourself.

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.