The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!

A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

I know him...of course.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.