Surviving is much more painful than death.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.