By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.