"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the greatest battles are fought within."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"He who seeks peace must remember that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"Love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security."

"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week."

"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."