No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

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.

Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.

Strong emotions create significant changes

That's what makes a tragedy a tragedy. There's no rhyme or reason to it, only heartbreak. The only thing you can do when the ground stops shaking and the waters recede is try to save whoever's left.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

When hosting a party, move any clutter from the space where you're entertaining.