The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.

The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.

I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me

It is impossible to think big without thinking complex.

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Behavior shapes emotions.

Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.