"Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God."

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it."

"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."

"I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes."

"Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with."

"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."