War is a profane thing.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

The fact that our hearts don't all speak in the same way is not cause or justification to discriminate.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.