The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.