To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

We are always in transition.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

Time is the stuff of which life is made.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.