I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer.
Health care is very complicated, and the government's had its tentacles woven deeply into this whole charade for over 50 years. But I don't understand why it's this hard that you can't do anything? It's the same thing as, "Well, Rush, you know, once an entitlement's been put into law, Rush, you can't take it away. " Yes, you can! It's just you can't have elected people do it thinking they'll get reelected if they do it. But you can do it.
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.