Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.

I keenly desire to know God and to keep His ways.

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.

Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.