I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

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.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

I think people have confidence that I will fairly and accurately represent their point of view to the President, and that I'm not going to put a spin on it, even if I may disagree with it.