“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”

“You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.”

“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”

“It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.”

“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”

“I may be down, but never out. An infantry officer can do anything.”

“Someone will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer: There you are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong — acting the part of a good man or a bad. …For wherever a man's place is, whether the place he has chosen or that where he has been placed by a commander. there he ought to remain in the hour of danger; he should not think of death or of anything, but of disgrace.”

“Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.”

“You may turn a bad idea into a good idea — don't kill the bad idea prematurely. A bad idea can evolve into a good idea.”

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”