Imagination rules the world.

I may lose a battle, but I shall never lose a minute.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

God and my right.

-- The Lionheart — England's warrior-king who spent his reign on crusade and battlefield rather than in governance

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

-- America's most aggressive World War II general, whose Third Army's lightning advance across France in 1944 demonstrated that speed and audacity in exploitation could collapse enemy resistance faster than methodical advance (1885-1945). Patton believed he

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

-- Virginia Woolf

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

-- Born in Richmond