True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted.

A day becomes gloomy if there are no smiles. Smile to light up the world!

The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs.

If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why), that is exactly where you will end up.

It's always nice being fancied. It's always nice being wanted. Even it it's by the wrong person.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.