Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

That was your delusion, not my reality.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Gimmicks come and go the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.