“There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.”

“When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.”

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”

“plan your work and work your plan""where there is a will, there is a way”

“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”

“Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.”