Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

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