Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

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.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.