Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Only the educated are free.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Who seeks shall find.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
After a storm comes a calm.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.