Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Take care of your people" is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?

Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

Have a magnificent holiday! Celebrate as if holidays are a reflection of your dreams, desires, traditions, and values all wrapped in happiness and joy.

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.