The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved

To be spirit led is better than been driven by guilt.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.