The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

If you want peace, understand war.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.

It's the way you ride the trail that counts.