No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.