Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

The knowledge of the soul is knowledge of the universe

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

I don’t know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.