If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

When you're in command, command.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.

Things spoken in love always become reality.

Being angry at the mistakes made by the heart will only leave you bitter.

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.