Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

That which is apparent ends. That which is subtle is never-ending.

Making fun is serious business.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.

I am a citizen of the world.

You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

“We think too much and feel too little.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

“She didn’t put her finger to the wind; she became the wind.” 

“Beware of any motto that glorifies the past. It’s code for restoring hierarchy. For example: “Make America great again.” 

“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”

“if you don’t stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?” 

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.

For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.