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

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.

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.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it.

It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.

It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.