“Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.”

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.

At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.

Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.

Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.

Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters. Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

The eyes are the window to the soul,

When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.

Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.

In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It’s about being a man. And it’s about love as well as hate.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.