There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

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.

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?

A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!

There is only one risk and that is not taking one.

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.