Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

I always love to come to Austin.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

What is your major malfunction?

A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.