I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.