People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.