The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

There are problems in the world today.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

I try my hardest to do what I have to do to make my team win.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.