It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.

But sometimes they all craved a little bit of danger, of excitement, of meaning, even if only to reinforce how very comfortable and secure their lives really were.

An effective leader is also an effective listener.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy?

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.