We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

A TRUE MAN OF HONOR FEELS HUMBLED HIMSELF WHEN HE CANNOT HELP HUMBLING OTHERS.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

The sport is about finding the horses. But to find another Valegro is impossible.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.

Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.

If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

All of us, every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.