Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.