"It matters little who is the enemy,..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.”

“If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.”

“Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!”

“All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.”

“You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.”

“We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.”

“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.”

“You cannot fail, you can only produce results.”

“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.”