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.

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.

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

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've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.

I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.