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.

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.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

It is appalling that President Obama would cut off federal health care dollars to Florida in an effort to force our state further into Obamacare.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.

We are critically dependent on the Internet and its ingrained in our way of life.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I'm not a big prank guy, because I don't like them done to me. I've been on movies sets where one guys goes into his trailer, and then people move the stairs, and he comes out of his trailer, and there's no stairs. That's not funny! I don't want to be that guy!

I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.

Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.

India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.

A dog doesn't care if you're tired or it's raining. It wants to go out - and if it doesn't go out, it's going to be mournfully following you around the house for the whole evening.

I'll probably never go to prom. I haven't ever been to a high school dance.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

I guess my first big break was getting the hit show 'Cavemen' on ABC. People made fun of it, but it was a huge opportunity for me and moved me out to L.A., where I learned a ton about acting and how much I didn't want to be in makeup for four hours a day.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.