A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Iraq is not about oil.

Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will, temptation challenges them.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

They'll kill you for doing this," I breathed in a brief moment when his lips traveled to my neck. "If I don't I'll die anyways.

When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.