I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

The dream is short, repentance long.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Virtue is too often merely local.