The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

If you want peace, understand war.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

Time spent wisely gets compensated

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.

It's cold out. It's even cold in Florida. So cold today that Katherine Harris put on a third layer of makeup.

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]