If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

I love to play to win.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.