I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.

So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.