There is only one decisive victory: the last.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

Im a good girl at heart who just wants to have fun.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.