Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

Cry the Gospel with your whole life.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

Greatness is its own torment.