"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."

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye."

"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?"

"One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow."

"When you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"It is a essential truth that every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"We look before and after,  And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter  With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."