Douglas MacArthur

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.