If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

[Jack Reacher] is the longest I'd ever shot anything - and let's be clear, this is my first studio feature film - so there was a huge learning curve.