There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared.

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.

As he moves through his day, sometimes he stops and just stares at me. There is something on the tip of his tongue. But he doesn't say it. I'm not sure he knows what it is.

Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

Hell, I've always like the man, " he said now. "Until he became involved with my wife.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Often times it isn't the quality of your candidates, it's the quality of your interview.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Whoever invented the spork should be killed.

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.