The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

I always love to come to Austin.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

What is your major malfunction?

We all want to know and be known. That's why doing good is so powerful when the focus is first and foremost the people and not the project.

Love is ageless, boundless, bodiless, boundary-less.

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.