A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...

I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?

... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far that was well played game.

No matter what level of your ability you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey