Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.

I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold." (Humans)

I'm scared to die, " I whispered as Michael walked in."He was scared to live, " he said kissing my forehead.

Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

Fame is such a waste. It can't even be recycled.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.