“Keep your cool, even when those around you can't.” — William H. McRaven Quote

Keep your cool, even when those around you can't.

If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

We're trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be - quiet professionalism.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.