I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People keep asking astrologers for their destinies. Ironically, it is the people themselves who are the creators of their own destinies.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

I love discovering tiny streets.

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.