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

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

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'.

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.

Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.