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

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.

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.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

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.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise

Every letter was a love letter.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.