Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America.

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?

Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

Do I believe that God is right here, ready to be my comfort in every situation?

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.

There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham)

Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that.

This is Reagan country. Yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.