What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

Wisdom often comes from those with the least to lose.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

Save the child and you save the nation.

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.