The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

Three-hundred million years from now, the only thing that will matter is whether you're in Heaven or in Hell.

Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.

Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

Only photograph what you love.