As God once said, and I think rightly.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.