We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

When you are innocently covered by sorrow, It shall be turned into joy.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.