The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship

It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.