To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

Find thoughts that make you feel good and think them a lot

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.