“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”

As God once said, and I think rightly.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset – its flexibility.

On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history; and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings.

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!

Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that’s never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.