“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.”

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.

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

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.

Your words and actions hold great power. Make sure you don’t use them to cause someone pain.

Will you be great at many things? Learn, Love, and prosper? Never satisfied at one victory. Success you must foster.

Rise up like the empires before. Tell tales of great obstacles overcome. Show others their true glory; and tell them it’s never over, it’s only just begun.

Rule over the rising sun. To thy greatest self be true. You must master the morning. Or the day will master you.