It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there’s nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.