We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.