I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

There is no such man as a one-person hero.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

Barba non facit philosophum

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.