Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

Poor people are those who do not have Dreams rather do not have Money…

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out.

You need to position yourself to your referral sources and your current clients as providing exceptional value and experiences in everything you do

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.