I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Fear kills more people than death.

Mark my word, the day is coming when it’s going to cost to live for Jesus Christ. We are, more and more, a minority, and that’s exactly what it was like in the first century.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.