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

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

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

I once saw you in a tuxedo and all I wanted to do is eat.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.