You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

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.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I’ve always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."