Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
I wake and moonbeams play around my bed Glittering like hoarfroast to my wondering eyes Upwards the glorious moon I raise my head Then lay me down and thoughts of home arise