We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.