The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

HARRY: “The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great cautio

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.