You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

Hopefully, some day I help some of this up-and-coming talent and promote them. Boxing is growing and is here to stay.

Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that evidence has only gotten stronger over the years.

Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.