Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

I want my army to be an army of the living God.

The only winner today is big business.

Never take counsel of your fears.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?

We learn to earn and to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful".

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.