Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Fear kills more people than death.

Be present to this moment and open endless doors of awareness. Now is where the joy is

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

You cannot compare America and Russia.

I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.