Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.