Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend.

Where military service begins, logic ends.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment