A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies.

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me 'I love you.'

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.