In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

If you want peace, understand war.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

He thinks things through too much.

He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fellow men...

The best thing you can do in life is to love unconditionally and endlessly.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.