Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.

We didn’t believe in tomorrow. We we couldn’t forget what had happened yesterday.

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

By 1989, the total number of Vietnam veterans who had died in violent accidents or by suicide after the war exceeded the total number of American soldiers who died during the war.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

Leadership is not a popularity contest it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

I think that yoga, it really is a process.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna.

Times change; years speed by; but Christmas continues sacred.