Good NCOs are not just born-they are groomed and grown through a lot of hard work and strong leadership by senior NCOs.

You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.

It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.

My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders.

We make art to feel life. We do science to understand it.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.