I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.