I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

The Americans are impatient by nature.

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk about it because it is a matter of degrees.

The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

The sum of our greatness lies not in asking“what do I want to do?” but rather “who do I want to be?

Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.

If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while.

What's on the inside, beneath that sugar? Is it a bug? Is it a booger?

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.