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

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.

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.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.

Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad.

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

O have a care of natures that are mute!

I'm not the beautiful one.

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.