His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.

I think it was hiding a princess.

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.