We need to see better to be better.

The strength of society is the family and the strength of society is the family.

A Wise Mind Makes a Wise Heart

I learned many things about human nature, but one of the greatest is the nobility inherent within us all, for one of the greatest things about being human is the ability to be humane

To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out

Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

Leadership is fundamentally about credibility.

Hope is a possibility.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

The best part of living in constant terror is you always have a place to live.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.