Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm--inner peace in the middle of chaos.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

I grew. Going outside my comfort zone is a big one for me.