They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

The mode by which the impossible is reached is Cosmic Ordering.

Your calling is in what you can do with human interference

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds, " 1954

Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

Connect with those who remind you who you are.

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.