And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Iraq is not about oil.

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.

Progress does take time, it doesn’t matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come”.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab.