I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

- Ernie Pyle

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

- Ernie Pyle

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

- Ernie Pyle

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

- Ernie Pyle

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

- Ernie Pyle

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

- Ernie Pyle

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

- Ernie Pyle

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being …

- Ernie Pyle

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us…

- Ernie Pyle