Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.

I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.