Work hard and be authentic. Everything else will fall into place.

I'm doing this for me.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.