I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

The heart is what matters most of all

As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.