If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Superficial goals lead to superficial results

Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.

The building blocks that form the foundation of your great and successful future, are the actions you take today

Life is but a flash of time, a momentous flicker-- in the life that we know and space we live in on earth.© VW

Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [USS} Midway with us...you guys were the 'Magic.' It was a privilege to sail with you.

Kids are natural scientists.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.