Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.