A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.
You can divide my life into two.
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.
I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it or you will never know what's beyond it.
In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.
People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here.