I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

Don't needlessly draw attention to yourself. If you're twerking on the beach, a circling pteracuda could mistake you for a wounded animal.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.