My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee..

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard..

I take things too seriously..

Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney….

The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatan….

Wanderlust is incurable..

We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on….

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our l….