Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Fear kills more people than death.

Character is a course, finish it.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.