It has always been my belief that a man should do his best regardless of how much he receives for his services or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal also his fine art finally also the only kind of piety he knows his 'divine service.'

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer because in that way alone as we believe can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government education and other services for the people of Iraq.