What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Drink from the ethereal philosophy of Heaven and you may see life as no more no less than a dream made of pure poetry from divine source. AA

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.