Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.

If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.