America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

Be Brave. Bravery takes fortitude—put yourself on the line, even if you risk failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid—if being brave were easy, more people would be. Just try it!

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.