Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.