The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.
There is no terra incognito left.
Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.