I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.