When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

A satellite has no conscience.

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.