Not every story started off big enough to notice.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them.

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.

Values are like a pilot’s flight plan . . . without them you’re flying blind.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs that was actually counterproductive.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

Most people leave work at the end of the day so they can surround themselves with people and talk, but those are both things I do all day anyway! So I tend to seek out peace in my private time.

It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.