Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.

A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

The mirror is a good place to start judging.

Republicans are the drag queens of politics. Peel away the pules for family, faith and fetuses and one discovers either neoconservative welfare-warfare statists or global social democrats ...

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.