The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

Let the essence of Christmas blossom within - as the countdown to Christmas begins.

Misery can only be quelled but never cured.

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Hurry and you can have the big crybaby for first kill.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

A life without criticism is not worth living.