Have character, but don't be a character.

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what they choose.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.

Popularity is not leadership.