You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.
It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.