Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

If its free its advice if you pay for it its counseling if you can use either one its a miracle.

Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

Youth is wholly experimental.

You dont learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Your spirit is the true shield.

Lightning came like a rip in the inky night, as if behind the dark canvass was a brilliant light just waiting to flood through any crack no matter how small.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.

There's a lot of learning that goes on based on the mistakes that we may make in practice, and our guys do a great job of trying to digest that information and be ready to go when we use it during the course of the game.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

When I say something funny, I don't laugh.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population.

iPhone4 is sold in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere, but it was assembled in China. As the world's center for the processing of IT products, China's environment is paying the price.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.