We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong

I come from strong people who believe in the freedom of expression and, of course, a culture that believes in that. So the idea of overcoming adversity is something that is not unfamiliar.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

Love never goes away; it just changes form.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.