Popularity is not leadership.

Popularity is not leadership.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

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

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

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.