It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

I don’t like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I've always had an underdog perspective.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.

It's heretical, I know, but I've never really been able to get on with Agatha Christie. She is, of course, a giant of the genre, but I never feel that she cared a great deal about the characters. Consequently, neither do I.

Always stay grounded and enjoy everything that comes your way, whether it's the chance to go for a opportunity or getting one.

Even paradise can be suffocating.

The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

Nonviolence doesn't always work " but violence never does.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.