Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

The first word about you is that you received this life.

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.