Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

Behind every legendary monster, there is an unknown tragedy.

We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

To create something you must be something.

People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.

I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?