God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.