I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

What's measured improves

If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'

I never say who I'm going to vote for, I never tell.

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.

Meditation is wondering. It is both wondering and wonder.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.