Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me.
Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.