On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.

I'm an actor who loves to get physical so any role that allows me to access that is glorious.​

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.