For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

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.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

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

What is your major malfunction?

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.

It's odd, isn't it? People die everyday and the world goes on like nothing happened.

One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important.

I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.