No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Living like this is a full-time business.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.

My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.

Punishment follows close on crime.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.