I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heavenand there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Aldous Huxley

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Rachel Maddow

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Thomas Hobbes

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Dalai Lama XIV

When mice run, cats give chase.

Rachel Vincent

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

Elizabeth Hurley

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.

Pharrell Williams

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Peter Drucker