I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

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.

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

Rule number one. The good guys always win.Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.

There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.