"Always be looking for that which you..." - Quote by Colin Powell

“We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.”

“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”

“Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.”

“To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.”

“Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.”

“We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe”

“Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.”

“...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.”

“I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.”