Donald H. Rumsfeld

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

I like to surprise myself.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Everything in life I’ve worked hard for; what makes you think I’d do you different?

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.