Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

Own your truths—all of them. Be honest. Be genuine. Be straightforward. Be refreshing!

You would destroy yourselves but He would be your savior.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used but they'll remember how you made them feel.

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.

That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.