"Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment."

“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”

“Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [WAREHEIM]and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.”

“My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'”

“In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.”

“Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.”

“Will and intellect are one and the same thing.”

“After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.”

“The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.”