“You don't know what you can get away with until you try.”

“Trust is the essence of Leadership.”

“Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.”

“The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.”

“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”

“The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”

“What is the city but the people?”

“The people are the city.”

“This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors”

“There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them”

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

“Individuals score points, but teams win games.”