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

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.

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

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.

In every moment of our life, we can deactivate the self-destruction command.

While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one’s bowels.Painful change just takes time.

In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.