The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

My own love was never mine and now I don't even have a dream of loving again.

Sometimes you have to let things go. Sometimes you have to stop caring for a minute.

The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

My wife." "By what name is she called, Kincaid?" "Mine.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.