The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.