Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The will of the people is the best law.

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

The world is nothing but a moment.

I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.