If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

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.

There's no greater joy than being able to touch People's hearts.

... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Because a person couldn't ever be good and evil at once. Little girl, don't you know? The world is made up of shades of grey.

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

I want to always make sure I'm in good hands.

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.