I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of...

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

People only hate what they see in themselves.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite...

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.