Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

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.

A soul's ugliness can be much more ambitious than her beauty.

J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett

...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.

Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.

And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.