Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Faith in God's Loving Kindness has truly been attained when both gain and loss bring the same degree of Gratitude.

All you need is a dream to drive you nuts.

When you born again you are stepped into greatness and it means you are in zone of Miracles.

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.