The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

There is no greater companion like books.

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.