Alexander Graham Bell

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.