Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.