If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her.

Most of us focus so much on 'capturing' the moment that we don't realize we keep losing it for the next which we will lose next:-)

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy!

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.