Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards. "
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.
If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.
A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.