There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.