How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

So, and it is common sense, be in the moment to make things happen in that moment.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

We're like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you'll never use us again.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

I didn't go to prom - I DJ'd all my proms.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.