"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"

"I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box."

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."