The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.

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.

I am amazed at the intensity of your dreams

If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.

Kyōko: You... you call yourself human?!Homura: Of course not. Neither are you.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

If ye love me, keep my commandments." This is the essence of what it means to be a true disciple: those who receive Christ Jesus walk with him.

Great stories move through fear.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

Life only makes sense when our highest ideal is to serve Christ!

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.