Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.