I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." And I told him I only had 132.

The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.

When you have God behind you, you can come out on top every time.

I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

From food addiction to food serenity - freedom tastes great!

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.