The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Success can not be administrated.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.