"You do not lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership."

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle."

"For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."

"Courage is saying, 'Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.'"

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

"1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you."

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us."