Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

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.

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

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 is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.