Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

Reading leads to good character development.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

I am a product of the draft.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'