I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.