Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

Color is a language, like music.