In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

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 requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

I'm going on an adventure!

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

I'm livin' high on the hog, and let me tell you, hogs make a terrible foundation.

I want to spend time with Oprah and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen.

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.