Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Culture is taking the background you come from and either running with it or running from it.

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.