There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Hit hard, hit fast and hit often

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.

Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

Well I've had a happy life.