Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.

The important concept of the solar wind is that Space is not empty. It is an energy and particle filled environment that interacts with whatever is in it! Astronomers call this 'Dark Energy'.

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.