It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.

Move over just a bit to the right of me, For I cannot see Where the booty is.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.