I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

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.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

To me it's so much like Spaced in that way. Um, which I love so much, so I think fans of that and fans of the comics are going to really see that up on the screen.

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.