I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

You can't fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!