I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently. "
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 911 attacks on America. His answer. . . "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.
A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they go like chromosomes or, as Woodward puts it better, 'visible fissile ribbons. ' It's as if we were present for the moments of creation and extinction. Uncanny Valley is ominous and beautiful.