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.

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.

We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.

A crier of green sauce.

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally.

I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.