None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.