"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

"And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship."

"I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom."

"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."

"I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched."