Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.

I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.