ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.

The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

In Africa it's difficult to carry the money, it's difficult to have a banking system with tellers, with distribution of cash. So they are using their mobile phones.

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.