A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Let me go!” I screamed, but it was a wasted effort. Dean was determined to hold me. Determined never to lose his grip.“I’m never going to let you go again.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

We say to others only what we need to hear

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Once you find it, it can never be replaced. – Unknown

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.