Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Writing is an adventure.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.