Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.

You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.

When you begin to give value to the world, somehow the people you affect will find a way to tell you. Even if it takes a couple of years.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.