Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.