A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
I remember looking back on a photo of me. . . wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.