For the most part Ho Chi Minh City is safe but like any large city you need to pay attention to what's going on around you.

Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.

Overall the cost of living in Ho Chi Minh City is cheap and if you can stay away from Western restaurants and use just local products in your everyday life it's really cheap.

Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.

I would say healthcare in Vietnam is so-so. There are several international clinics that are good but expensive and the care offered is limited.

Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.

I'm divorced and have a son and a grandson and it is a problem being away most of the time. Living as I do, if I had a wife and children I think it would be really hard to do.

My home address is a small apartment in Fair Oaks, California but I'm here in Ho Chi Minh City right now staying in a rented room and this is where I spend a good part of every year.

On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing.

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.