Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free.

From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.

Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.