Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

I want to go where the guns are!

The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war.

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Freedom was a drug, one that grabbed hold of you the second it entered your bloodstream. It made you giddy and reckless if you didn’t know how to channel it.

Once you have heard the Indian Bamboo flute then everything else is just ordinary!

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true.

I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.