To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

You know, OK, I made a few jokes - and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade.

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.

Three fires is the international distress signal.

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.