A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.