"When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills."

“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.”

“Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.”

“And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II”

Source : "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

“If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.”

Source : Linda Howard (2008). “Death Angel: A Novel”, p.166, Ballantine Books

“Originally I considered myself a singer.”

“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.”

“I love it when a woman is wearing Red Lipstick, and her hair is combed back, so sensual and confident.”

“conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.”