The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

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.

Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 am. It could be a right number.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.