Just because war is hell doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though.