Louis Zamperini Quotations

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.

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

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

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

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

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

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.

Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.