There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

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

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

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.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.