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

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

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