It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.