We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.