Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.

Then this is how you do it, ’ and kissed her slowly, letting time fade away. And he couldn’t remember any other kiss that felt quite the same.

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

There's two heads to every coin.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.