Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Preparedness is the key to success and victory.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.