My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I came through and I shall return.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.