I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

There are some people who may be good yet toxic for you, so be careful of who you surround yourself with.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

People are eager to walk in other people's pair of shoes that does not fit them. The result is that, their dreams begin to imitate a "tortoise" walk and that I guess is already uncomfortable!

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

God, eldest of Poets.