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.

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.

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.

None of us wants any more war.

Love shouldn't have a reason but love is the reason.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

One stroke fells not an oke.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

When I workout early in the morning, the rest of the day feels so much better.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.