Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Strategy is a system of expedients.

The ones who take human circumstances too personally will eventually be left outside mercy

On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.