Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.

Love is always about losing something

Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

I was born to murder the world.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.