Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

We can't kill our way to victory, and no armed force anywhere - no matter how good - can deliver these keys alone. It requires teamwork and cooperation.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

It is all falling indelibly into the past.

Never fear your enemies, fear your actions.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.

Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.