It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

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.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.