An awful lot has been written about my temper.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

If you can believe that you can do it, the whole universe will conspire to help you.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.