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

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.

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.

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.

I was gung-ho, no question about that.

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is insoluble.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.