I was raised to face any challenge.

One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person’s face. When you forgive, it’s like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

If you hate somebody, it’s like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.

It was all in His hands now – as it had always been.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness.

Someone who doesn’t make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn’t act...

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up; you fight to the finish.

I’d made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

The kids started teasing me to get me to swear in Italian. Two or three months, I started retaliating. I found out I could whip these guys. So I’m always fighting, getting even. Even the...

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people’s throats.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

The Bible speaks of the Word of God as added. Sometimes it’s planted by the wayside, and nothing grows there. Sometimes it’s sown among the thorns and represents the person who makes the decision an...

I couldn’t speak English. I’m in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It’s not so strange. Where there’s still life, there’s still hope. What happens is up to God.

All I want to tell young people is that you’re not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if...

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart and my life. The moment was more than remarkable; it was the most realistic experience I’d...

I’ve got to say that is – the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.

When you’re on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, ‘Get me home alive, God, and I’ll seek you and serve you.’ I came home, got wrapped up in...

‘Unbroken’ was published as a help to society.