If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

I guess I wouldn't want to be rich. you'd never be sure if people liked you for what you were or what you had.--Tellie

If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.