Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

My vision for this book and the others in the series is to let people know what kind of commanders we have, ... You don't pick generals off park benches. ... They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it. And I want to get across to people the intellectual dimension of command, to let people know that it's hard to be a general. And the people we have with general stars on their shoulders are pretty smart and pretty good guys.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.