The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

Well, it made you famous.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.

Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.