This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

Success can not be administrated.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A woman is like an egg salad sandwich on a hot Texas day.

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.

I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.

If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.