Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

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.

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion.

Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.