Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.

You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.

You cannot simultaneously want to eat a chocolate cake every day in front of the TV and want to be slim. You cannot want to be single and carefree and want to be in a loving, exclusive relationship

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.

In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.