But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

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.

I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

I have worked with some great directors.

I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors and who I think I'd work well with better moreso than others.

Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also your best present to others!

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.