A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.