Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
The last thing I wanted to do was 'Battlestar Galactica.' I thought, 'I've done sci-fi. I did 'Blade Runner.' I don't have to do anything more.'
Jessica Battilana has been my kindred cooking spirit for more than 10 years. Our careers as cooks and writers have taken us through the same Bay Area restaurants, bakeries, magazines, and newspapers.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.
Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.
I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
