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

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.

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

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

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

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

Without curiosity, all doors remain closed!

As long as there are teenage girls, there will be boy bands. It's a question of how long it takes them to get their music together to come out.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.

If one by one we counted people out

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.