Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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.

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.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

...I watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?