If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

War is science of destruction.

Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

When someone tells me to 'just relax, ' I wonder why they don’t hand me a book?

If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.