Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin your endurance of fatigue and privation. always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.
To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whenever the timing is right, so I'm just patient.