A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Fear kills more people than death.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

Insecurity is disconnecting from what inspires you and taking on board an external point of reference.

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.