“I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.”

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.

It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

I don’t want people to know what is true all the time and that’s what keeps the mystery.

You deserve to live the life you want to live, not the life others expect you to live.

If you want to be happy, go ahead and don’t hesitate, don’t let anybody stops you from feeling that way.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want, I just react. I go against it.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.