No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

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.

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

People alive are better than people not alive.

Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

President Obama's made the White House really the people's house. People feel like they're welcome.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.