Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America.

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?

Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.

And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved.

We walk by faith not by sight.

I bend but do not break.

The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.