We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
People who ‘view with alarm’ never build anything.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.