In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

It is easy to smile in the face of a challenge, when we believe in ourselves that we won't back down.

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.