We need to understand what we're saying matters.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

There are problems in the world today.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

None of us wants any more war.

The quieter the mind the louder the soul.

May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.