One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn.

The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.