You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.