He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

Many people go through life complaining, whining, and obsessing so much about what they don’t have that they are doing exactly what it takes to block it.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

I've always gravitated naturally towards a little bit of a heavier thing, having been in punk bands and metal bands before I ever got into pop.

Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.

You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.

The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world.

Certainty is the enemy of change.

All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.