Choices are made before explanations, whether or not we care to know it.

Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.

Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

All bad things, like good things, must end.

Should I really set her free, and free myself too of the fear - the fear of missing her, forever? Is that what my love for her is leaving me with?

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

Glory and gore go hand in hand.

Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.