History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.