I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Denim and doubt, cotton and caution, fell to the floor in a forgotten heap

Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.Would she ever be free?

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

I said I love you and that's forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.