Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

I still think there is a way to take all the mistakes that we've made as adults and put a little bit of a salve on them, a little bit of a fix on them, if we just are a little smarter in what we teach our kids.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Love is the only rational act.