Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

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

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

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.

Loneliness is your only companion.

Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

Sometimes he’d dream of hunting for Adam the Usurper twenty years in the future, or of Doctor Simmons sending Aero to burrow into his head and steal his most secret thoughts and desires.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.