The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, And so today the farmer shakes his head, More and more often sighing that his work, The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

Lucretius, The Way Things Are, B

A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Source Unknown

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Mike Gordon

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Sam Ervin

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

Whittaker Chambers

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Smiles are the language of love.

David Hare

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

John Powell

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

Theresa May

Do not love half lovers. Do not entertain half friends. Do not indulge in works of the half talented. Do not live half a life and do not die half a death. If you choose silence, then be silent. When you speak, do so until you are finished. Do not silence yourself to say something. And do not speak to be silent. If you accept, then express it bluntly. Do not mask it. If you refuse then be clear about it for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance. Do not accept a half solution. Do not believe half truths. Do not dream half a dream. Do not fantasise about half hopes. Half a drink will not quench your thirst. Half a meal will not satisfy your hunger. Half the way will get you no where. Half an idea will bear you no results. Your other half is not the one you love. It is you in another time yet in the same space. It is you when you are not. Half a life is a life you didn't live. A word you have not said. A smile you postponed. A love you have not had. A friendship you did not know. To reach and not arrive. Work and not work. Attend only to be absent. What makes you a stranger to them closest to you and they strangers to you. The half is a mere moment of inability but you are able for you are not half a being. You are a whole that exists to live a life not half a life.

Khalil Gibran

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Laurell K Hamilton