We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.

Each of us has the ability to create

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.