Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

Always stay in with the outs.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.