A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

I've enjoyed much success. The IRS is always at my door, constantly.

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.