Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.

Social media is just that - social.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.

Good people need room to develop. They have to find their own voice . . . each IBMer is a businessperson working within the framework of the company structure.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.