The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

sometime hate is just confused love!

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.

When I call on Jesus, all things are possible.

To be a great leader, first become a great person.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.