This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case you become a casualty. So you have to have depth within an organization.

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.

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.