I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

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.

You need to calm down.'Saying this to a man who may already be fired up is like adding gasoline to the fire.

OUR MOTHER EARTH CAN LIVE WITHOUT US BUT WE CANT LIVE WITHOUT HER

The only way to have great customers is to be one.

We often forget that we are nature.

I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.