If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.

We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. Frank Buckles.

An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?

My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

When you start to die, don't.

I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.

I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

I don't know anyone my age.

Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.

I was gung-ho, no question about that.

Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.

In my darkness, my pathway was marked by the brightness of light.

How wonderful it must be, to be unable to remember things that once caused us distress. Yet we should embrace all our memories, whether joyful or painful. They're all we ever really own in this life.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?