Army’s value = loyalty,duty, respect, selfless, service, honor, integrity, personal courage .

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

"You do not just wake up and become the butterfly—growth is a process."

"The poet's job is to find the words that will make the invisible visible."

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."

The things that we love tell us what we are.