No study is possible on the battlefield.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

John Kerry went hunting today. He said he killed a goose. He didn't bring Teresa along because he was a little rusty and he was afraid he might kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

A good deed is a good deed.

You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

You've got to be in a determined state in order to succeed.