The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 911 attacks on America. His answer. . . "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
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.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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.
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.
We are all made up of star stuff.
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.