"Good NCOs are not just born-they are groomed and grown through a lot of hard work and strong leadership by senior NCOs."

“If you want to change something, you have to use new ways.”

“It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.”

“Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.”

“Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.”

“It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 23, 2017

“God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.”

“Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.”

“The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.”

Source : Raymond Bernard Cattell (1972). “A new morality from science: beyondism”, Pergamon