There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

There are three key questions that must/should guide you in life

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

It's all about inner silence! Everything else would just take you there!

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.