As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

If you want peace, understand war.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?

Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in

No matter what path you choose, really walk it.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

Choose your clothes for your way of life.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.