It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

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

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

When placed in command, take charge.