I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. GrantRead
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I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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