“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.”

“Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”