"In Vietnam, I learned that combat is a furnace that can consume you, or it can forge you into something better and stronger than you were before," Mr. Hagel said.
It either burns you alive or it forges you.
"The power of spiritual practice is that it forges you stealthily, as you entertain angels unaware".
If you're serious about it, have a metalworker forge you a solid steel bat for you to carry around all day, the weight will build up your muscles and when you grab a normal bat, it will seem almost weightless and move much faster.
And yet... and yet a connection had been forged between you that you could not shrug off.
When you forge steel you can never get two faces completely tight and flat.
But we hope that as you forge legislation, you are mindful that we cannot support legislation that will mitigate one risk only to put our coasts at a greater peril from another source".
And thus a mental connection is forged... "You can fit more than 250 states the size of [Joe Biden's home state,] Delaware within the borders of Alaska!" says Linda Lingle, the governor of Hawai'i, thereby adopting the talking point I suggested yesterday.
But then, that is where friendship is really forged, when you spend day in, day out with each other, having a laugh, arguing over silly stuff like the bills, or whether to cook a chicken with lemon and garlic.
