I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

But now I salute you who follow me, It is my time to stand at ease ... content.

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Success is not determined by the amount of accomplishments, but by the road traveled & how you handled the recovery of each failed attempt.

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!