Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.