The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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.

You have a great talent and a great role in the world.

Never think twice, when you have decided once.

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

I don't need to get my due; I get my money.

Stand on the gas, my friend. If your right foot doesn't ache, you're obviously doing something wrong.

A mother is the truest friend we have.