“Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose”

“I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.”

“Across the globe, even in the world's "worst places," people found ways to turn pain into wisdom and suffering into strength. They made their own actions, their very lives, into a memorial that hon...”

“The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.”

“Take care of your people" is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?”

“If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.”

“[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minu...”

“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to p...”

“A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.”