Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.