
On being the oldest active-duty officer in the U.S. military, in an interview on 60 Minutes (24 August 1986)
On being the oldest active-duty officer in the U.S. military, in an interview on 60 Minutes (24 August 1986)
“My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands.”
Variant: And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.
Source: City of Lost Souls
“A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef.”
Do You Believe in Gosh?
Autobiography (1873)
Context: In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words. He also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar's Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, McCrie's Life of John Knox, and even Sewel's and Rutty's Histories of the Quakers. He was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcoming them: of such works I remember Beaver's African Memoranda, and Collins's account of the first settlement of New South Wales.
Meeting Saint Ignatius, pp. 32-33
My Early Years (1968)