I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

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.

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.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed.

Once again I am only who I am.

Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?