Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

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.

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

Be kind to everyone you meet.Give a little bit of yourself to mankind.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Change the world by being yourself.

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.