“I get angry at a principle, not a person.”

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.

With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

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

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.

When placed in command, take charge.

Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The best fighter is never angry.

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.