'True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.'

'From what we get, we can make a living: what we give, however makes a life.'

'Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.'

'Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.'

I liked these men very much when I first met them on the mountain nearly a half-century ago, but I came to admire them far more in the years that followed. I t…

[He] is probably the most intelligent officer I ever served with. [He has] great integrity, sound judgment and great kindness in dealing with people. He is a p…

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…