My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. Eating words has never given me indigestion. Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.