The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful.

O the divine, O my love, I don't want to seduce you with my wealth or splendor, but with my love and deepest gratitude.

Who told you that your journey was a thousand miles

Do not you realize you're talking to another person's ugliness yourself when you're talking about someone else?

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.