Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.

You’re telling stories again. You have the disease of telling stories, Roland.

I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth – a small machine.

Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.

Baby girl, five minutes alone with me and you're gonna be begging me to taste your pie.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.