Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

Nothing is impossible for him who believes.

The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.