From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.