If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.

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.

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.