“Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.”

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

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.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.