People who stare deserve the looks they get.

A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.