Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

When you find that one person who's worth taking a bullet for is the on standing behind the trigger.

In the case of smokers, the abuse leads to death, sicknesses, cancer, amputation, loss of all kinds.

Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.