I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

Never give up, no matter what.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.