The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.
Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. . . . Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
There is no delete button for bigotry.
You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear…. Nobody's music is the enemy of your music…The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.