Choose to win Get mad, then get over it.

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.

Strive for perfection, knowing it will never be achieved.

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

I have people close to me who ask my advice just as I ask theirs.

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.