You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.