As usual, there was a story behind the story, and that is where the truth was hidden.

We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.

War is the most profitable business on earth

The truth can’t hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.

I guess that makes everyone in boots on the ground a murderer

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.

You're going to have to go out there and throw tons of zeroes to give your team a chance to win.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.