Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

Markets will always move ahead of the news.

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

After all, I want to make sure I stick with his original vision. So far, [Steven King] comments have always been the same - run with it!

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.