I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

The best way to make dream come true is to wake up.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

Experience is the highest level of knowing.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.