[James Mattis] also has real passion for the care of the men and women in the U.S. military and their families. So, you know, I think he would be an outstanding candidate.

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

General James Mattis is a storied and much-respected military leader.

[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.

Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.