You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

All I know is what I am getting.