Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

The highest distinction is service to others.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

The decisions you make today, could affect the rest of your life, be wise.

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.

In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

I used to have a gun made every month; I would get another pistol made that I would design. I'm very into the military and police stuff like that.

With self-discipline, all things are possible