Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

I wish you a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.