This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.