Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.