Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff.""Dustoff? You're going to run away from three guys?""No, I'm going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police.

You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

Deep play precedes deep work.

When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.