Audacity, audacity, always audacity.

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.

Drive fast, take chances.  Interpretation: Don't worry about breaking the emotional speed limit.  Rush headlong into life and enjoy every moment of exhilaration!

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.

But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.

People think they have the right to judge everything that I do.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.