For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.