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.

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.

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.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

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.

If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I do think I might scare some guys, because I'm like, 'I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?' But I only know how to be me.

We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping.