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

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.

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.

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers to you the Altitude of Beatitudes

No holidays, no country.

I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.